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Following the publication of my debut essay collection, Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide to Divinatory Literacy, I have been sought out by institutions such as NYU, the University of British Columbia, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and the Mechanics Institute, among other places.
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Sample subjects:
Queer and feminist epistemologies
By using the select major and minor arcanum, this talk weaves the image with the literary, the personal with the political to undergird a liberatory praxis. Connection will be made with cards like the Two of Wands to World Traveling with Loving Perception (Maria Lugones), the Seven of Swords to Disidentifcation, the Ten of Pentacles to the Brown Commons (Jose Esteban Muñoz), the Four of Wands to Coalition Building (Chela Sandoval), the King of Cups to Feminist Masculinity (bell hooks). This talk will be constructed alongside a divination that elicits the cards wishing to show up as teacher for queer, feminist epistemologies. Audiences will learn about these theories and praxes with the tarot iconography serving as a shorthand.
Decolonial perspectives on divination, developing a decolonial praxis
In this talk, I frame literacy as key to liberation and explores an understanding of tarot as critical literacy. I show how the cards can be read to subvert the dynamics of white supremacist-capitalist-imperialist-patriarchy, weaving historical context and spiritual practice into a comprehensive overview of tarot. I’ll be presenting the tarot as a radical epistemology that shifts the authority of knowing into the hands of the people themselves. Participants will leave with an understanding of Tarot as radical literacy with solid foundations in ethical tarot reading.
Reading Tarot To Write
In this talk, I discuss tarot as tool that can sustain a writing practice. I will share strategies for strong visual analysis of the cards, and the manner in which they pose provocative questions that can dispel the fog of writers block. I will share on my how tarot can become a muse and how to court this literary, divinatory muse with a daily practice that fortifies the discipline for sustained writing. Audiences will leave affirmed in their ability to read tarot and to write in wide array of genre in response, and with an understanding of what it takes to publish in the modern literary landscape.
